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Lansing Rotary Foundation

The mission of the rotary club of lansing foundation is to establish an enduring source of revenue where lansing rotarians may honor the club's creed of "service above self" by supporting charitable endeavors of importance with positive impact on our city, our nation, and our world.

$148k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$358kHuman Services$151kHousing & Shelter$102kFood & Nutrition$76kHealth$46kReligion$42kYouth Development$38kArts & Culture$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $97,061, the rows itemized in this filing. The $147,561 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $50,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $81k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$702k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FDN$30,556
CATHOLIC CHARITIES IEC$10,000
ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$10,000
MIKEY 23 FOUNDATION$10,000
WOLDUMAR NATURE ASSOCIATION$10,000
HAVEN HOUSE$10,000
CAPITAL AREA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP$9,705
GARDNER INTERNATIONAL MAGNET SCHOOL$6,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 9%CRISTO REY: $10k → 9%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LANSING: $10k → 16%YMCA of Metropolitan Lansing: $5k → 16%SOUTH LANSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 16%Child & Family Charities: $15k → 16%CHILD AND FAMILY CHARITIES: $10k → 16%CHILD AND FAMILY CHARITIES: $10k → 16%CHILD AND FAMILY CHARITIES: $6k → 16%THE DAVIES PROJECT: $10k → 16%ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 16%ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Lansing Rotary Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Lansing Rotary Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$311k · 11 repeat orgs$323k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
19

Total granted

$311k
$273k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
-6%

Still filing today

73%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPITAL REGION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $68k · revenue +119%
  • CA
    Child and Family Charities
    4× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +200%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties
    2× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +243%

Funded once

  • GL
    GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -6%
  • AH
    ADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue -33%
  • CA
    Capital Area United Way Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -31%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Shared Pregnancy Womens Center

To offer education, assistance and resources to women and families in the greater lansing area.

Civil Rights
2
Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation
Community Improvement
3
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
4
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
5
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…

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6
Michigan Advocacy Program

To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.

Crime & Legal
7
Legal Services of Eastern Michigan

To provide free civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and to use legal skills to address the causes and effect of poverty.

Crime & Legal
8
Habitat for Humanity of Lapeer - Tuscola

To eliminate sub-standard housing and homelessness from lapeer county.

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9
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
10
Human Development Commission

Our mission is restoring hope by helping people and changing lives.

Human Services
11
The Nest Lansing

Provide shelter and other services to the homeless.

Human Services
12
Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center

The lansing art gallery & education center provides public awareness, education and enjoyment of the visual arts by promoting the work of michigan artists.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advent House Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rescue of Southern Sudan Village People. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
13/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $308,336 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $42,000 · OtherADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INCLANSING PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $37,009 · OtherLANSING PUBLIC SCHOOLSCapital Area United Way Inc: $30,000 · OtherCapital Area United Way IncTRI-COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING: $26,000 · OtherTRI-COUNTY OFFICE ON AGINGWKAR: $25,000 · OtherWKARJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MID-MICHIGAN: $20,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MID-MICHIGANMID-MICHIGAN RECOVERY SERVICES INC: $13,500 · OtherGARDNER INTERNATIONAL MAGNET SCHOOL: $12,533 · OtherRESCUE OF SOUTHERN SUDAN VILLAGE PEOPLE: $13,500 · Other+12 more: $98,522 · Other+12 moreChild and Family Charities: $41,000 · Human ServicesChild and Family…Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties: $40,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Chariti…Allen Neighborhood Center: $20,000 · Human ServicesAllen Neighborho…Young Mens Christian Association of Lansing Michigan: $15,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Chris…THE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MICHIGAN CHILDREN: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE DAVIES PROJE…SOUTH LANSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH LANSING CO…EVE - End Violent Encounters: $5,000 · Human ServicesHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPITAL REGION INC: $67,500 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FO…HAVEN HOUSE: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHAVEN HOUS…CAPITAL AREA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $9,705 · Housing & ShelterCAPITAL AR…GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK: $50,000 · Food & NutritionLANSING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER LANSING: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANSING: $17,500 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$308,336Other$318,064Human Services$141,000Housing & Shelter$87,205Food & Nutrition$50,000Arts & Culture$20,000Youth Development$17,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $308,336 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPITAL REGION INC: $67,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $42,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChild and Family Charities: $41,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties: $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCapital Area United Way Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAllen Neighborhood Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANSING: $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Lansing Michigan: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMID-MICHIGAN RECOVERY SERVICES INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRESCUE OF SOUTHERN SUDAN VILLAGE PEOPLE: $13,500 over 2y, 52% of budgetSt Vincent Catholic Charities: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MICHIGAN CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHIGHFIELDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLANSING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTH LANSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER LANSING: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLANSING AREA AIDS NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAPITAL AREA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $9,705 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFirecracker Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetReach Studio Art Center: $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ARC SHIAWASSEE COUNTY INC: $5,022 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEVE - End Violent Encounters: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Capital Region Commun…Desk Drawer FundJoe D Pentecost Found…Lansing Economic Area…Dart Foundation fka S…Re Olds FoundationJackson Charitable Fo…Community Foundation …United Way of South C…Comerica Charitable F…WK Kellogg FoundationCinnaire Corporation
Capital Region Community FoundationMI55.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Capital Region Community Foundation · Desk Drawer Fund · Joe D Pentecost Foundation · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Re Olds Foundation · Jackson Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way of South Central Michigan · Comerica Charitable Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Cinnaire Corporation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lansing Rotary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lansing Rotary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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